Tech · jamesshore.com
An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
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Not by a little bit, either.
Key facts
- About 5-9 years in, they’d notice their teams were no longer getting shit done, and then they’d call me
- Let’s say you asked a crowd of, say, 50 developers what those maintenance costs
- Halving the crowd’s maintenance estimates gives you three more years before you hit the 50% mark
- 1 You’re welcome to conduct your own wisdom-of-the-crowd survey
Summary
The reporter will get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. You write code twice as quick now? Oh, you want to know why? Every line of code you write has to be maintained: bug fixes, cleanup, dependency upgrades, and so forth. Let’s say you asked a crowd of, say, 50 developers what those maintenance costs were. Your crowd might tell you that, for each month you spend writing code, you’ll spend.